Nexstar Replaces CW Comms Chief Paul Hewitt With Beth Feldman

Nexstar has named Beth Feldman the senior vice chairman of community communications on the CW, changing Paul Hewitt, the longtime comms chief on the younger-skewing broadcaster.

Feldman will oversee inner and exterior communication and program publicity efficient instantly, taking on for Hewitt, who’s leaving the community after 22 years on the job within the wake of Nexstar’s majority acquisition of the channel. Hewitt’s exit comes on the heels of longtime CW president Mark Pedowitz being ousted upon the shut of Nexstar’s acquisition of the community in August.

In an announcement about his exit, Hewitt stated: “For the previous 20 years, I’ve been extremely lucky to have performed a task, albeit a small one, in serving to form, affect and even outline in style tradition with the collection we created and shared with our passionate followers. This job has been an absolute present, and I’m eternally grateful for all of my colleagues in our CW household, the producers and expertise on the reveals too many to checklist that I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside, and above all, a world-class PR group that I’m proud to say has all the time been the very best of the very best on this trade. I’m wanting ahead to leaping headlong into the subsequent chapter of my profession, and I want Dennis, Sean, Beth and everybody at The CW and Nexstar the entire finest as they steer this community into its daring, new future.”

“Beth’s deep connection to the tv leisure trade and her huge expertise creating profitable promotional and consciousness campaigns for a broad array of stories, discuss, and leisure programming make her a useful useful resource for The CW,” new CW president Dennis Miller stated. “She is an revolutionary and artistic thinker and has well-established relationships with necessary media shops throughout the nation and right here in Hollywood. I’m wanting ahead to the vitality she is going to convey to our communication efforts as she continues constructing on the strong basis established by Paul Hewitt and his group over the past 22 years. We thank Paul for all his assist and want him nicely.”

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